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Word entry · 6 letters

billet

Best crossword clue

"Soldier's assigned lodging"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɪlɪt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted beilltStarts with BEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2I3L4L5E6T

Definitions

  1. provide housing for (military personnel)

Word origin

From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette (“list, schedule”), from bille + -ette, from Latin bulla (“document”).

Used in a sentence

  • However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet[…]
  • On their return home, however, she was greatly consoled by Lady Mandeville's reading aloud a billet from Edward Lorraine, regretting that unexpected business,...
  • His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle.

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